The
contents of a human brain would just fit onto a 120 Gigabyte hard
disk!
The
world's longest road is the Pan American Highway - 48,000Km!
2.7
people are born every second!
One
fifth of the space in European and North American cities is taken
up by cars!
The
Rolling Stones are the richest band in the world!
The longest earthworm measured was 6.7m (22ft) long!
The scarlet bodied wasp moth can make love for 9
hours at a time!
The Arctic Tern flies more than 26,000 miles per
year migrating from the Arctic to Antartica!
Sloths move so little that they actually get mould
growing on them!
Penguins have been known to have gay sex!
The
average man gets 11 erections per day!
Butterflies
taste with their feet.
A duck's quack
doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes,
a hurricane releases more energy than
all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average,
100 people choke to death on ball-point
pens every year.
On average people
fear spiders more than they do
death.
Ninety percent
of New York City cabbies are recently
arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads
for dating are already married.
Elephants are
the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or
older.
It's possible
to lead a cow upstairs, but not
downstairs.
Women blink
nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an
inch every year because when it was built, engineers
failed to take into account the weight of all the
books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH" or
"PURPLE".
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our
nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric
chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left-handed.
In ancient Egypt,
priests plucked EVERY hair from
their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich's
eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made
using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go,"
is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be
39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
A crocodile
cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
150
People are killed every year by coconuts falling on them!
The
horn of a rhino is made entirely of hair!
The
average size of a raindrop is 2mm!
Every
animal has approximately the same number of heartbeats in it´s
natural life. The smaller the animal, the faster it beats and the
shorter it´s life!
The
Frigatebird, a fish eating seabird cannot fish. Instead it attacks
other birds until they regurgitate the food and then swoops downs
& grabs it in mid air!
Porcupines
masturbate!
If
the sun was the size of a large orange, in comparison the earth would
be the size of a grain of sand!
Ostriches
have eyes bigger than their brain!
Lobsters
can regenerate lost claws!
The
trails made by the Incas in the Andes, if put end to end would stretch
from London to Los Angeles!
A
species of Parrotfish blows a mucus membrane around itself whilst
it sleeps!
The
words qwerty, qat, ch, st, aa, and euoi are real words and admissible
in Scrabble!
A
bullet will only travel a few meters underwater before it becomes
harmless!
Bears
really do shit in the woods!
In
Tasmania it is still illegal to be gay!
A
type of lizard, if captured can release it´s tail which then
writhes and squeaks to distract it´s predator!
There
are male and female banana plants!
The
male seahorse become pregnant and gives birth to live young!
The
bra was invented by Mr Titslinger!
The
toilet was invented by Mr Crapper!
There
is an island the size of Wales or Holland in the mouth of the amazon
river!
Tea
has more caffeine than coffee!
You
weigh less at the north pole than at the equator!
It
takes more energy to eat celery than it gives you back!
A
hummingbirds heart accounts for 20% of its bodyweight!
Kangeroos
can determine the sex of their young!
Some
fish can change sex!
It
takes more energy to watch paint dry than to watch TV!
It
takes 8 minutes for sunlight to reach the earth!
There
are only 12 letters in the Hawaaian alphabet!
The
universe is more than 15 billion years old!
Elephants
die naturally of starvation after they lose
their third set of teeth!
In
Spanish the word for handcuffs is the same as that
for wife "esposas". Ummm!
The
least corrupt country in the world is Denmark!
The
fastest bird in the world is the Eider Duck,
possibly also the warmest!
If
all the molecular space was taken out of a camel it
would fit through the eye of a needle!
Camels
can drink 27 gallons of water in 10 minutes –
An average of a pint every 15 seconds!
When
a man ejaculates a chemical is released into his
body that makes him want to sleep!
A
dog’s sense of smell is 200 times that of man (and
they still sniff peoples feet)!
